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City of Asylum (521 words) |
 | The staged reading is part of a larger celebration titled "Voices of Freedom," in observance of Banned Books Week (Sept. 25 through Oct. 2), and it is free and open to the public. |
 | Skenderija, who was born in Bosnia, began publishing prose, poetry and criticism in Yugoslav literary journals in the late 1980s. |
 | In 1999, with the help of Wayles Brown, Cornell associate professor of linguistics, Skenderija and his family moved to Ithaca. |
| Absinthe #5 reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird (2226 words) |
 | Skenderija ridicules the visit: Mitterand came, to give us and our slayers a lecture / in morals and mutual understanding. |
 | Skenderija himself fled the siege of Sarajevo the same year in 1992, and in Why The Dwarf Had To Be Shot, theres a strong sense of the writer as eyewitness to events. |
 | There are five poems from Skenderija in Absinthe 5. |